Excellent, MV ! Voici en résumé les principales idées fortes déjà envoyées vers la Maison Blanche :
Here are a few of your many ideas to improve declassification policy:
* A new executive order should be designed for the electronic environment.
* The older information is, the less need there should be for a declassification review. There should be a "drop-dead" date of 50, 75, or 100 years for declassification.
* We should re-think the principle that only the classifying agency has the authority to declassify a document.
* Each agency that classifies information should be required to spend a fixed percentage of the amount spent on classification on declassification.
* The only human intelligence sources that should be eligible for continued classification are those that could be placed in physical jeopardy if disclosed.
* There should be incentives for personnel to produce material at the lowest classification levels possible.
* The CIA veto at the Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP) should be eliminated.
* The ISCAP should provide more information about its decisions to the public.
* The Information Security Oversight Office (ISOO) should have declassification authority, which would strengthen its oversight capabilities.
* There should be an expert panel to identify records concerning events which should be classified for longer than 25 years and allow the remainder of the records to be automatically declassified.
* There should be a central public database for declassified documents.
* Decisions to continue classification should be based on the substance of the information to be released and on the real damage to national security that could occur if disclosed.
* If prioritization of records is done, it should be done by archivists in the final, or access, phase of the declassification process, to identify records for scanning, electronic distribution, or other levels of processing and description.
